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Zambia Taps into Islamic Finance |
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Friday, 05 February 2010 16:40 |
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source: Islam Online
LU  SAKA – Zambia is tapping into the thriving Islamic finance industry by formulating guidelines for Shari`ah-compliant banking services for the first time, with bankers expecting the move to accommodate Muslim clients and help the economy of the Southern African country. "The guidelines are intended to provide a broader framework for conducting Islamic banking services in the country," Bank of Zambia Governor Dr. Caleb Fundanga told IslamOnline.net
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Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2010 16:48 |
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Germany Mulls French-style Burqa Ban |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 29 January 2010 15:24 |
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source: Islam Online
 CAIRO – Following the suit of their Western neighbor, German politicians are proposing a full ban on the face-veil in the European country, drawing fire for violating individual freedoms.
“The burqa is a full-body prison that deeply threatens human rights,” Lale Akgun, former Social Democratic Party (SPD) lawmaker, told Frankfurter Rundschau daily Thursday, January 28.
“It would be an important signal for Germany to ban the burqa.”
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) also proposed a blanket burqa ban.
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Iraq Drone Hacking Stirs US Fears |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 03:29 |
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Source: Islam Online
CAIRO — The success of Iraqi resistance groups to hack into the complex communications systems of advanced US drones is stirring fears that the Iraqi groups were feeding misleading data to American troops to trap them.
"The main concern was that the video feeds were being intercepted, manipulated and then fed to the commanders in the field," a senior military official told the Wall Street Journal Friday, December 18.
Using cheap software, Iraqi resistance fighters have hacked into live video feeds of unmanned US drones.
Obtaining the video feeds could provide the fighters with information about sites the military might be planning to target.
The US military discovered the hacking after a video footage was found on the laptop of a captured Iraqi fighters.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 19 December 2009 03:32 |
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Marseille Mosque Exposes Europe Angst |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:23 |
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 Source: Islam Online
CAIRO – Plans to build a grand mosque in France’s second-largest city of Marseille have set off a new wave of xenophobic fears, exposing the deep-seated anti-Muslim sentiments in the country and across the European continent.
“I’m going to bomb it when it opens,” an older French man told The New York Times Monday, December 28, wishing to be unnamed.
“There are a lot of them (Muslims) already, and this will bring more of them, and there will be trouble.”
Plans are underway to build a $33-million grand mosque in the port city in April.
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Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize |
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Written by Ziadh
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:29 |
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Source: Al-Jazeera
Barack Obama, the US president, has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize while acknowledging his role as commander in chief of a country involved in two wars.
Speaking at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway's capital, on Thursday, Obama said he received the award "with an acute sense of the cost of armed conflict", referring to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"I am the commander in chief of the military, of the nation in the midst of two wars. One of these wars is winding down. The other is a conflict that America did not seek," he said.
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